Paul mochatjie



Patented July 26, 1932 "ui USS istilBTEiHCB UNITED STATES PATZENT QOFFICE PAUL MOGIHLALLE, OF DURRJ'ENTSCH, AND JACOB MROCHEM, OF BItESLAU, GERMANY CQNCENTRATED SULPHuR SUSPENSION AND rnoonss or MAKIN SAME No Drawing. Application filed September 23, 1930, S'erial No. 483,968, and in Germany September 30, 1929.

This invention relates to a novel concentrated sulphur suspension and a process of making same.

It is known to heat mixtures of Sulphur and sugar up to the melting point and to float-up the molten mass after having cooled off in water, whereby after filtration finely distributed sulphur will be obtained developing at the same time sulphuretted hydrogen. i

We have found that if sulphur is heated with sugar and starch up to at least 160 C. in the presence of air after having floated-up the molten mass in water, there will be separated substances which are colloidally soluble in pure water. An example of carrying out the process forming part of our invention is given in the following:

' E mample At 160 the molten mass is taken on the fire and after having slightly cooled off poured onto platesto permitfullcooling. The so-obtained cooled mass is now crushed into small pieces and floated-up in l. of-water,-'

.the substances which are colloidallysoluble in water now depositing so that theymay be j The preparations made according to this process contain, besides large quantlties of colloidal sulphur, highlymolecular sulphurcontaining organic compounds which are of oil consistency andsoluble in water.

hese oils are of reddish-brown color and are almost completely soluble in water and 90% alcohol. Their aqueous solution reacts acid against phenol phthalein and litmus and neutral against methyl orange.

It has heen found that the oils so obtained consist of a mixture of several sulphur containing organic compounds which may be separated from each other by a process of distillation in the vacuum. However, a large Search KOOm part of these oils is not volatile and cannot,

be distilled nor de-composed at a higher temperature.

The distillates are from yellowish-brown to dark-red oily liquids which themselves again represent mixtures and it has been possible to separate from these mixtures small the component having a boiling point up to 27 C. at a pressure of '14 mm. This component amounts to about 2 percent of the oil and consists of a sirup-like yellowishbrown substance from which after some long er tstanding needle-shaped crystals will separa 1 Second fractiom 'There'will be separated the component having a boiling point at from 28 to 33 C. at a pressure of 14 mm. This component amounts-to about 18% of the oil and consists of a clear yellow, easily movable liquid with a content of sulphur amounting to 0.73 percent. 3

Third fm0tz'ogt.There will be separated the component having a boiling point at from 34 to 170 C. ata pressure of 14. mm., while the main part of these oils has a boiling point at from 145 to 170. This component amounts to about 40 percent of the oil and consists of a dark-red oily liquid from which 7 after some standin small t't' f l'd' separatedfrom the aqueous liquid anddri'ed. g quan 1 les 0 so 1 bodies will Separate. The content of sulphur amounts to 1.02 percent. 1

F om'tk fraction.-There will be separated the component which amounts to about 4:7 of the oil, this component having its boiling point at temperature above 170 at a pressure of ll mm. .This component of a reddishbrown sirup-like oil with a content of sul-- phur amounting to about 1.02 percent. I

The residue after the fourth fraction amounts to about 36% of the oil and is of solid consistency, of black color and carbonaceous due to de-composition, the greater part of the residue being de-composed. The 1 content of sulphur amounts to 2.1 percent.

The preparations so obtained do not .develop any sulphuretted hydrogen and may be used for therapeutic or technical purposes.

We claim: I

1. A process of making a concentrated sulphur suspension able to produce colloidal solutions with water, said process consisting in melting sulphur together with sugar and starch in the presence of air ata temperature of at least 160 0., and thereupon cooling the molten mass so obtained. a

2. A process of making a concentrated sulphur suspension able to produce colloidal solutions with Water, said process consisting in melting sulphurtogether with sugar and starch in thepresence of air at a temperature of at least 160 0., thereupon cooling the molten mass, floating up the solid mass so obtained in water, and separating from the resultingliquid the colloidally soluble substance.

3. A process of making a concentrated sulphur suspension able to produce colloidal solutions with water, said process consistingin melting sulphur. together with sugar and starch in the presence of air at a temperature of at least 160 0., thereupon cooling-the molten mass, floating up the solid mass so obtained in water, separating from the resulting liquid the' colloidally soluble sub stances, and said colloida'lly soluble substances.

4. As a new product of manufacture, a concentrated organic sulphur -sus ension of oily consistency composed. of sulp ur, sugar and starch treated at a temperature of at least turs. t

. IPAU'L MOCHALLE. JACOB moonnn.

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